MOUHY, Charles de Fieux, chevalier de Le masque de fer, ou Les aventures admirables du père et du fils. Première (- troisième) partie. 1759 P. de Hondt, 12mo, old sheep, gilt spine, red edges, marbled endpapers, silk marker, 3 parts: xij-132, 120,...
Estimation :
150 / 250
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
114 pp. (some minor soiling). Very good copy.
Rare Hague ed. of a popular work by the French novelist Mouhy (1701-1784), 1st publ. 1747. "The Man in the Iron Mask" is a name given to a prisoner arrested as Eustache Dauger in 1669 or 1670, and held in a number of jails, including the Bastille and the Fortress of Pignerol. He was held in the custody of the same jailer, Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars, for a period of 34 years. He died on 19 November 1703 under the name of Marchioly. The possible identity of this man has been the subject of many books, because no one ever saw his face, which was hidden by a mask of black velvet cloth. Mouhy, who in 1726 was a prisoner in the Bastille himself, had to publish his novel outside France where it was forbidden. Titles in red & black.
Rare Hague ed. of a popular work by the French novelist Mouhy (1701-1784), 1st publ. 1747. "The Man in the Iron Mask" is a name given to a prisoner arrested as Eustache Dauger in 1669 or 1670, and held in a number of jails, including the Bastille and the Fortress of Pignerol. He was held in the custody of the same jailer, Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars, for a period of 34 years. He died on 19 November 1703 under the name of Marchioly. The possible identity of this man has been the subject of many books, because no one ever saw his face, which was hidden by a mask of black velvet cloth. Mouhy, who in 1726 was a prisoner in the Bastille himself, had to publish his novel outside France where it was forbidden. Titles in red & black.
